Relates to allocating two hundred fifty thousand dollars to each member of the assembly for the purpose of compensating employees and staff of such member.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4708
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 22, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. MCGOWAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to funds allocated to
each member of the assembly for the purpose of compensating employees
of such member
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of section 7 of the legislative law,
2 as amended by chapter 506 of the laws of 1960, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 The assembly may choose a clerk, a sergeant-at-arms and a stenogra-
5 pher. When an appropriation has been made for the services, temporary or
6 otherwise, of officers and employees of the assembly and their appoint-
7 ment is not otherwise authorized by law, the speaker of the assembly may
8 appoint such officers and employees and fix their compensation, respec-
9 tively, within the amount provided by appropriation. Each member of the
10 assembly, regardless of majority or minority status, shall, on an annu-
11 al basis, be allocated two hundred fifty thousand dollars for the
12 purpose of compensating employees and staff of such member. The majority
13 leader of the assembly may appoint a counsel to majority leader, an
14 assistant counsel to majority leader, a secretary to majority leader,
15 and a clerk to majority leader. The minority leader of the assembly may
16 appoint a counsel to minority leader, a clerk to minority, an assistant
17 clerk to minority, a secretary to minority leader, a clerk to minority
18 leader, an assistant clerk to minority leader, a ways and means minority
19 clerk, two stenographers, a clerk-chauffeur and a messenger to minority.
20 In case of the death or resignation of the clerk of the assembly, or his
21 inability to exercise the powers and/or discharge the duties of said
22 office, notwithstanding any other provisions of law the speaker of the
23 assembly shall appoint an acting clerk or designate the assistant clerk
24 as acting clerk to serve until a clerk is chosen by the assembly to fill
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 the vacancy or until the disability shall cease. The acting clerk so
2 appointed or designated as such shall have and exercise all of the
3 powers of the clerk of the assembly until a clerk has been chosen and
4 has qualified or until the disability shall cease.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
6 have become a law.
